ABSTRACT

Analysing a broad range of texts by inventors, cultural critics, photographers, and novelists, this book argues that Victorian photography ultimately defined the concept of memory for generations to come – including our own.

The book will be of interest to students of Victorian and modernist literature, visual culture and intellectual history, as well as scholars working within the emerging field of research at the intersection of photographic and literary studies.

chapter |18 pages

Introduction

"Stars from the Empty Sky"

part One|67 pages

The Photograph in Time

chapter Chapter One|18 pages

Photography in the Age of Oblivion

chapter Chapter Two|21 pages

"Already the Past"

The Backward Glance of Victorian Photography

chapter Chapter Three|25 pages

Having Been

Photography and the Texture of Time

part Two|67 pages

The Photograph as Time

chapter Chapter Four|27 pages

Literary Memory and Victorian Stylistics

chapter Chapter Five|24 pages

Modernism's Photographic Past

chapter Chapter Six|13 pages

At Home in the Nineteenth Century